Rev’d Kate Bottley
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Rev’d Kate Bottley
Known for her Sunday morning radio show on BBC Radio 2, the Reverend Kate Bottley has also appeared on shows including Gogglebox, and Celebrity Masterchef.
Reverend Kate is passionate about bringing stories of faith and belief to the widest audience possible, and can often be seen on the long-running religious show, Songs of Praise.
Although not raised in a religious family, Kate admitted that she started going to church because she fancied the local vicar’s son. They have been married since 1998 and have two children.
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JOINING THE CHURCH
The Reverand Kate Bottley’s love affair with the church was peaked by her love for the vicar’s son, which threw her into the world of religion.
She studied secondary religious education with qualified teacher status in 1993, before training to be a religious education teacher in secondary schools. She remained a religious teacher up until 2005, and then trained for ordination by being a vicar’s PA at St Mark’s Church in Grenoside before studying at St John’s College in Nottingham.
Kate was ordained as a Church of England deacon in 2008 and as a priest the following year. She began working at St Andrew’s Church in Skegby in 2008, before becoming the chaplain to North Nottinghamshire College in 2011. She would go on to work at St Mary and St Martin’s Church, Blyth, an associate priest in the Retford Area Team Ministry, and become an honorary Canon of Southwell Minster.
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Passionate about bringing stories of faith to the masses, Kate presented the 2016 BBC One Easter documentary, In the Footsteps of Judas, and has also been a frequent guest on Radio 2 Breakfast Shows’ “Pause For Thought” feature.
She got the invitation to join the BAFTA and National Television Award-winning series Gogglebox (2014-16) after a dance she performed as part of a wedding flash mob went viral, with more than 8 million hits on YouTube.
Kate has also appeared on Celebrity Mastermind (2016), Celebrity Masterchef (2017), The One Show (2017-20), The Hairy Bikers Home for Christmas (2017), Richard Osman’s House of Games (2019), Celebrity Chase (2019), Lorraine (2020), The Wheel (2020-21), Would I Lie To You (2021), Strictly Comes Dancing: It Takes Two (2019-21), The Great British Sewing Bee (2021), Between the Covers (2022), Steph’s Packed Lunch (2020-23), and The Weakest Link (2021) – where she won the £9,000 prize.
In 2018, Kate featured on the first series of BBC programme Pilgrimage alongside Neil Morrissey, Debbie McGee, Ed Byrne, Heather Small, Raphael Rowe, and JJ Chalmers. On the programme, the celebrities – all with diverging faith and beliefs – don their hiking books to set off on a medieval pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago.
In 2021, Kate was featured in the BBC programme Winter Walks, where she showed audiences walks in the Yorkshire Dales. She has also appeared on Sport Relief and Children in Need.
Kate is also a prolific writer, regularly contributing to The Times Educational Supplement, The Guardian, The Independent, and The Radio Times on religious faith.
In 2023, she published her book Have a Little Faith: Life Lessons on Love, Death, and How Lasagne Always Helps. It would end up on Amazon’s bestsellers lists for “Anglicanism”, and “Religious Biographies”. She co-authored the book Yorkshire Dales Church Walks (2016) with Peter Naldrett, and contributed to Three Vicars Talking: The Book of the Brilliant BBC Radio 4 Series (2020) alongside Rev Giles Frasers, and Rev Richard Coles.
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